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Recovery time vs training suggestions

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over 3 years ago

After yesterdays more intense training the fenix suggested I should rest for 40-something hours and right now it is still saying I should rest 24 hours. However, the training suggestion says I should do a 36-min-base-run. That‘s kind of contradictory, isn‘t it? Even yesterday, directly after the training session, when recovery time was >40 hours, the fenix suggested a base run.

And this kind of contradictory / confusing message I get after basically every training session.

So how do you read this? Are these two features (recovery time and training suggestions) just completely unrelated, each doing it‘s own thing?

Any suggestions on how to make sense of this?

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    The base run is a recovery run. So it's part of your recovery. You can either rest or do a base run. This run will not effect your recovery when running slow. That's why you get this suggestion after a hard workout.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Actually, the recovery time is ment to tell you approximately when you are ready at 100%, completely fresh, and not when you can resume training. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Rest and recovery are two different things. Try to avoid conflating the two terms. Garmin give you a recovery time which, if taken to it's conclusion is when you would be fully physiologically recovered from training. However, the reality is that most training is undertaken in a partially recovered state; that's how fitness, strength, and endurance is built. 

    BTW, some coaches (me included) will never refer to any run as a Recovery Run. Any run of any intensity will impose physiological and physical loads. A base run is a lower intensity run aimed at reducing the stress on your body and cleaning out 'gunk' from your previous exercise and easing muscles loads etc. A base run is not the same as resting and should not be treated so. Rest is just that, time when you do nothing. A base run is by definition not rest.